I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

I think that it's too much to take on the world. It's too much to take on Los Angeles. All I can do is to go back home to the canyon where we live and ask the kinds of questions that can make a difference in our neighborhoods.

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.

To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.